Technical interviews are part of why I've moved away from engineering positions. I'm looking at product management jobs thinking that I could use what I learned past 6 years working on a SaaS alone. However, I found the exact same shit, even more technical interview questions that require whiteboard code writing.
There might be some merit to why they are doing this but it's impossible for me to engage companies that discount real world product experience in favor of rote memorization.
So far it's a pretty tough nut to crack, lot of product manager interviewers don't seem to know what they are doing, instead relying on law of large numbers and how great their fucking product is blah blah blah (it isn't).
It's a bit worrying since some companies seem to be hiring product managers for some subjective end goal of an improved product and improved sales....they want one person to take the credit from, and the same person to take all the blame...another huge red flag when managers outright tell you they have no idea what to do so they just get someone else to outsource their thinking.
There might be some merit to why they are doing this but it's impossible for me to engage companies that discount real world product experience in favor of rote memorization.
So far it's a pretty tough nut to crack, lot of product manager interviewers don't seem to know what they are doing, instead relying on law of large numbers and how great their fucking product is blah blah blah (it isn't).
It's a bit worrying since some companies seem to be hiring product managers for some subjective end goal of an improved product and improved sales....they want one person to take the credit from, and the same person to take all the blame...another huge red flag when managers outright tell you they have no idea what to do so they just get someone else to outsource their thinking.